Adding Crowdfunding campaigns to your WebsiteBuilder website

Add Crowdfunding capabilities to your WebsiteBuilder website
Add Crowdfunding capabilities to your WebsiteBuilder website

Are you creating your website using WebsiteBuilder? Would you like to add Crowdfunding capabilities, and campaigns to your website? This tutorial will show you how you can quickly add a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign to your new or existing WebsiteBuilder website.

This article is part of the blog series for adding Crowdfunding features on your website. You can learn about adding Crowdfunding capabilities on other platforms such as Shopify, Squarespace, Wix, BigCommerce, Boldgrid, Duda, Ucraft, Pagecloud, Site123, Weebly, PrestaShop, Jimdo, One, Webnode, Strikingly, Orson, Pixpa, Yola, WooCommerce, Volusion, Format, Unbounce, IM Creator, Voog, Elementor, Weblium,  and GoDaddy as included in this series.

The solution described in this blog article can be used for any rewards/pre-order, or donations based Crowdfunding campaigns and paradigms. It is great for running a single campaign, or multiple campaigns on separate pages for any new or existing WebsiteBuilder site using white label technology such as Atlas. To gain the capabilities to run a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign on your WebsiteBuilder site, you need to subscribe to an Atlas subscription plan. The Micro subscription plan is great to use for this purpose. Included in the subscription plans is the Sedra widget. You can use the Sedra widget to host a campaign on any web page.

Please note that it is recommended to read the following article to quickly set up the widget for this tutorial.

Creating a Crowdfunding campaign page on your WebsiteBuilder Website

Step 1: Subscribe to the Atlas subscription plan.

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Atlas subscription plan options

Step 2: Create the Crowdfunding campaign, and copy the widget code.

Campaign creation steps preview widget code
Campaign creation steps preview widget code

Note: depending on the configuration of your site, you may need to approve the campaign to view it live. To do this, you can log in as an administrator, and go to the administrator dashboard, click on campaigns, and choose approved/running from the dropdown menu located in the status column for the campaign that you have created.

Step 3: Host the widget on a separate page.

Once you have created the campaign and copied the widget code, you will have to host the widget on a separate page. You will have to reference this page in order to host it on the Volusion website. If you would like to host the campaign on a separate page using the Atlas platform, you can log into the site using SFTP, create a new .html file with the widget code included for this example we have saved it to be called widget.html:

Widget code pasted into editor
Widget code pasted into editor

Import the .html file that you created as a new page via SFTP. Place the file in the following location using SFTP: webui/angapp/widget.html

Go to the page that is hosting the widget, and copy the URL.

Step 4: Paste the widget URL and view the campaign.

Now that you have the widget hosted on a separate page, you can now log into your WebsiteBuilder dashboard, and start creating a new page. To do this go to the WebsiteBuilder dashboard, and click on the blue edit site button.

Click on edit website
Click on edit site

Now you can create a new page. Click on the New page button at the top of the page.

Click on the New Page button
Click on the New Page button

Now you can add the name of the page.

Add the page name
Add the page name

The page should be added to the navigation of the site. You can then add the widget into the page by clicking on the add section button.

Click on add section
Click on add section

Choose the embed URL option.

Choose the embed URL option
Choose the embed URL option

Click on the URL field.

Click on the URL field
Click on the URL field

Paste the widget URL that was copied in the previous step into the field, and click on the save button.

Paste the widget URL into the field
Paste the widget URL into the field

You can now view and donate to the campaign.

View and donate to the campaign
View and donate to the campaign

That is how you can add any pre-order, rewards, and donations based Crowdfunding campaign on to your WebsiteBuilder website. For a full and more detailed tutorial, you can watch the following video: